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berg,

You should be spending very little time, if any, in that folder.

I know what you mean, but man if this isn’t the exact opposite of me. If the program doesn’t store its config here I’m close to crusading.

~/.config really makes life a lot easier when backing up your dotfiles.

berg,

Why does he suck? I know nothing about him.

berg,

Just because I were curious enough to check this out, from Wikipedia:

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What's an alternative to Spotify that doesn't play you the same fucking songs over and over?

I am in an intense love-hate relationship with Spotify. It makes good mixes for me, I have found a lot of great bands that way. BUT IT KEEPS REGURGITATING THE SAME SONGS IN THERE. I know about Song Radios and Artist Radios, so please don’t recommend those. Smart Shuttle doesn’t cut it, either....

berg,

This wasn’t what you asked for, but I have to add it in here: I switched to YouTube music because I was told the shuffle actually was random there. From my experience the past couple of months it seems to be the case, at the very least it’s better. But discovering new music (without putting in much effort) has been harder. Their playlist sorting is non-existent (you’re stuck with alphabetic order, no folders). And for some idiotic reason the playlists are shared with YouTube… Everything with it, except for its working shuffle, is horrendous.

How the fuck can Spotify just not have a true fucking random shuffle, it’s so annoying! It does everything else fairly well, but I’m not switching back to starting a playlist of 8+ hrs and getting a recognizable pattern depending on what I skip and don’t. Or whatever goddamn algorithm they think is better than /dev/urandom.

This gave me hope for a while, but I’ve now given up: community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/…/103#comment…

berg,

Yes, I’m aware of the radio ability. I’m not using shuffle to discover new music. I’m using it to play random songs from a large playlist I have.

berg,

How do you check what is eating up all your memory/cpu?

berg,

Ah, I see. I use htop as a task manager.

berg,

This changed my habitual way of working with browsers for the better, can’t recommend it enough. I’m using Sidebery though, not sure of the differences, but I really like its snapshot feature.

berg,

Why wouldn’t you recommend OnePlus though? I have a 9 pro which I enjoy. I really don’t miss the Samsung’s bloatware.

berg,

No security updates though.

berg,

After four years there are no more security updates coming from OnePlus, unless someone started doing the work themselves. This is the only reason I updated my last phone.

berg,

Experience, to be fair though I last owned one 3+ years ago and that one was 3 ish years old.

berg, (edited )

Ahh, I only meant to say that I might be living in the past. I thought the bloatware came from Samsung since what I heard on the street matched my experience. Maybe it’s time to bury that hatchet though.

To be fair it wasn’t a big issue. It was just like five apps that I were stuck with. But back in the days with less memory overall it really grinded my gears. These days I’m not sure I’d even notice.

berg,

Yeah, maybe a bit of hyperbole on my part as well. Have a good Saturday evening!

berg,

I agree! It’s not easy to measure this and my equation of course falls a bit flat. But as a rule of thumb I think it’ll do. Albeit more so for the games I tend to play I guess.

My question stems from having seen people complain that pricy games were to short. I’m kind of thinking about it like a cinema visit you know? If you enjoyed the movie that was 2h and cost $10 (taken willy nilly from the air), how could you equate that to a game?

berg,

That’s pretty much my look on things as well! I’ve felt like the gaming community generally demands more out of a game than they’d a movie.

berg,

I guess I take for granted that extended time spent in the game contributes more to the subjective value. Otherwise, why play? Of course there are a plethora of reasons to keep playing. But if we disregard that for now.

There are edge cases. E.g. a lovely small title that isn’t replayable and barely three hours long. That one could bring the average up a bit, depending on the price. But I’m not asking for a universal rule, rather where the ratio starts to hurt subjectively for people.

Or well, I guess what I really wanted to know is how people compare the price of games to other recreational joys. Especially considering the timespan of the compared activities. Though maybe a bit poorly phrased. :)

berg,

What are you doing here? It’s not growing now is it? You see, it has to grow! The factory MUST grow!

berg,

I think a VAC ban only bans you from that one game, at most from other games with VAC. I got VAC banned in modern warfare 2 10+ years ago, but it hasn’t had an impact on my account/other games. More than a notice on my profile that it happened.

… just to add, the ban was justified. I went into a game and just held down the shoot button with a plethora of cheats on to see what it was like. It took all the fun out of it and cost me a game I liked. Not recommended. : )

berg,

Sure, there’s a possibility. But since it hasn’t happened in 10+ years I doubt it’s a problem.

berg,

Right in the feels

berg,

Compared to sidebery plugin (ff)?

berg,

When I did it I just forwarded my mails to the new service (fastmail) and changed mail address whenever a mail got forwarded in. When I didn’t receive a forwarded mail for a year or so I deleted my old mail and never looked back.

If you use a password manager this get easier though, since you can just lookup where the old mail is used.

berg,

IDK why it wasn’t included with the Steam release, but it’s always been my favorite part of the game.

They just didn’t have time at first. They’ve said that they’re working on it though.

berg,

It’s 4chan? What do you expect

berg,

Depends on the playtime you get out of it. 140hrs+? Great value.

berg,

I don’t agree. Development costs money and I’m willing to pay for it. I usually compare it to other daily things, such as nice restaurant visits or such. Things costs money.

Just because I’m curious, what would you feel to be a fair price for one of those games?

berg,

Depends on the studio of course, but I bet in the general case they wouldn’t be payed more if the price was lowered. It’d be fun to investigate the margins but I don’t care enough to do so.

The games I play the most are actually from reputable studios and/or indie devs whom I don’t mind supporting. Except football manager, but I don’t buy new revisions and have clocked enough hours to feel ok with the price.

berg,

Have you tried sidebery? When I found tree layout for tabs to be a thing I haven’t looked back.

berg,

Ahh, of course, that should’ve been obvious 😅

berg,

kosher food without alcohol is automatically halal.

Noice!

berg,

Both are quite high (ex. 88% is 43 days a year, ~3hrs daily rounded up)

berg,

I use Arch for the AUR (e.g. lazyness)… The wiki is great as well.

berg,

Just use yay. But fair enough, it’s not everyones cup of tea.

berg,

It’s based upon the well established distro Arch, and thus still considered Linux. A distro is basically the Linux kernel with pre-installed packages. SteamOS only adds another layer of packages unto Arch afaik.

berg,

The terminology is off then. Different distro’s is not regarded as entirely new OS’s, they’re still Linux. E.g. SteamOS (if anything) is Steam’s distro, not Steam’s OS. I’m not trying to nitpick, only explain.

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